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LuaJIT is a <strong>Just-In-Time Compiler</strong> for the Lua
programming language.
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Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed
for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a
general-purpose, stand-alone language. More information about
Lua can be found at: <a href="http://www.lua.org/"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;http://www.lua.org/</a>
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LuaJIT is based on the Lua 5.1.x virtual machine and bytecode interpreter
from lua.org. It compiles bytecode to native x86 (i386+) machine code
to speed up the execution of Lua programs.
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LuaJIT depends on <a href="coco.html">Coco</a> to allow yielding
from coroutines for JIT compiled functions. Coco is part of the
LuaJIT distribution.
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LuaJIT is Copyright &copy; 2005-2008 Mike Pall.
LuaJIT is free software, released under the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php"><span class="ext">&raquo;</span>&nbsp;MIT/X license</a>
(same license as the Lua core).
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